A Clunky Television Conjectures a Covid Variant

In those early days we bought a used TV set. A gypsy fortune-teller had predicted many televisions in our life together. Thus when the TV conjectured the possibility of a global plague, it commenced to reprogram itself into our future, to electronically dream-up the year 2023. We had to look away from the screen, documentary shows were showing too much; we were forced to ponder our relationship - to consider being locked into just one channel. Then tomorrow slowly somnambulated out into the blighted, deserted streets. Somewhere within an old fuzzy screen you were already disappearing.